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...will plant 279,000,000 acres-10,000,000 more than last year. They will plant 20% more peas and beans (good meat substitutes), 10% more soybeans, 21% more peanuts and flaxseed for oils, 14% more potatoes, 6% more corn to fatten their cattle and pigs. Food Administrator Claude Wickard had never dared hope for such figures. Nor had the nation...
Chester Davis, the new farm-food administrator, bosses 42,000 Dept. of Agriculture employees, but his authority practically funs out there. His organization is a box within Secretary Wickard's box and his power is shelved apart from the War Manpower Commission, the WPB, and the OPA, which all share in agricultural administration...
...amiable Agriculture Secretary spoke truly-but too late. Everywhere the people could see that a year's indecision and vacillation had finally caught up with Claude Wickard and the Administration. Civilians were told they could have only half the amount of canned goods they ate last year. Black meat markets flourished. Butter stocks were at the lowest point in 18 years. Even Claude Wickard finally had to recognize that the land of plenty had become a land of scarcity...
...last Claude Wickard was scared. To the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee last week the long-sanguine food czar glumly admitted...
Married. Ann Louise Wickard, 20, daughter of Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard; and Naval Ensign Jean Vincent Pickart, 23, of Gary, Ind.; in Washington...